Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | No. 1 (Sono ichi): Fish, sake bottle, and plum blossoms | Edo period, 19th century

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Description

woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, from the series The Game of Fox Fists (Kitsune ken), signed Hokkei, sealed Kosai, privately issued, circa late 1820s

Shikishiban surimono: 19.5 x 17.8 cm, 7⅝ by 7 in.

This may have served as an advertisement for the Ebiya, or Spiny Lobster House. The establishment was still worthy of note when John Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Japan (1894) was published, despite the disappearance of the village of Oji, long a favourite retreat in the suburbs under the paper and cotton mills.

For another impression of the same surimono in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.25450, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/216721

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